HIT: MID Lit Circle Title search

[Diane Norby <DNorby@HOPKINTON.K12.MA.US>]

My original request was:
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I need help with this. I have been asked to recommend a novel with a =
lower reading level to round out the offerings for a literature circle =
with the theme of "a changing world" to be conducted in 8th grade next =
year. The other novels it will accompany are: A Tree Grows in Brooklyn =
by Betty Smith,  Cold Sassy Tree by Olive Ann Burns, (the higher level =
ones) and Nothing to Fear by Jackie French Koller. It should appeal to =
the reluctant reader, be set in that same time period (early 1900s), and =
depict strong family life.
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Does such a book exist?=20
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Here are the replies I received:
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Preacher's Boy by Katherine Paterson
Harris and Me by Gary Paulsen
Belle Prater's Boy by Ruth White
The Learning Tree by Gordon Parks
A Year Down Yonder, Fair Weather, and Blossom Culp books by Richard Peck
Cheaper by the Dozen
Soup by Richard Peck
Great Brain series by Fitzgerald
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Many thanks to all who responded!
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Diane Norby, Library Media Teacher
Hopkinton Middle School
Hopkinton, MA
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dnorby@hopkinton.k12.ma.us
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